Can I still sell my iPhone if I owe money on it?

I owe $800 on my iPhone which I'm unable to pay for. The phone bills already went to collections. Could I sell my phone for a little extra cash or will I not be able to?

Whoever buys the phone will not be able to use it.

Depends where you sell it

First off it's highly against the law to sell property that you do not own it's called in your case felony theft by conversion. If you're in a finance agreement with a phone company to pay for a telephone and you go out and you sell the phone to somebody you have one option you can take the money that you got from that telephone to the phone company that you owe the money to and you can pay the phone off with the money that you get if you don't get enough money you have to make up the difference. If you can't do that your only other choice is to give the phone back to them and they're still going to charge you a big pile of money.

The phone will eventually be blacklisted and become impossible to activate on any US carrier. The person you sold it to obviously wouldn't be to happy about it and file fraud charges against you.

Goes to show, you should never pay for these high interest phones, something like that happened to me a while back and I couldn't afford the 110 cell bill every month that included limited data so I gave the phone back and started a prepaid plan. ATT is the worse at doing that…

Technically you could sell it but you would be selling property you do not own.

Also, you'll get a very angry customer when the phone gets blacklisted which it will. If you don't pay a phone off, it gets blacklisted meaning it won't connect to any network

You would have to sell it for 800 to pay off the bill

Try living within your means.